Jaws:
- Author name: Peter Benchley
- Date published: 1974
Peter Benchley, a
former journalist, penned a simple story about a beach town being terrorized by
a great white shark, in an attempt to salvage his floundering career in the
early 1970s. Luckily for him, the book was a smashing success and managed to do
just that. Thanks to an incredible marketing strategy by his editor Thomas
Congdon, “Jaws” remained on The New York Times’ hardback bestseller list for 44 weeks, and was turned into a movie directed by none
other than Steven Spielberg.
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